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this is a big difference between jerry falwell and jimmy carter. jimmy carter never believed if you necessarily change the law that he would necessarily have the results of a reteamed country. in fact, jimmy carter felt very awkward about making the argument that america was somehow the chosen people of god. jerry falwell was very willing to do that. sherry fowler clearly conflated the american nation with christianity. jimmy carter was always very hesitant, such as in the moralizer, very hesitant to god's purpose with america's purpose. after the i love america rally, no surprise again we get the formation of the moral majority and we get the rise of what is known as the new right during the period. and many of the members of a new right also were very sure that jimmy carter was quite vulnerable on a bunch of cultural issues, which is some ways didn't prove to be afraid if they wanted it to, but they had a point. none of this would matter. sure to falwell's opposition, none of this anonymous there was a candidate they are ready to articulate the c
this is a big difference between jerry falwell and jimmy carter. jimmy carter never believed if you necessarily change the law that he would necessarily have the results of a reteamed country. in fact, jimmy carter felt very awkward about making the argument that america was somehow the chosen people of god. jerry falwell was very willing to do that. sherry fowler clearly conflated the american nation with christianity. jimmy carter was always very hesitant, such as in the moralizer, very...
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[applause] >> i know there's a big debate. we frequently at the smithsonian get letters from people telling us either we are totally right or totally wrong, and we never say anything about it so whether george washington said so help me god, and, you know, how many people were close enough to hear at the time and have you got a record from them? >> to be clear the constitution does not include it. that language is not in the constitution, and george washington almost certainly did not say so help me god, no only is there no evidence, but there's a minister who is present and writing about the inauguration and later becomes washington's great christian defender, arguing what a great christian washington is. if anybody was going to say washington said this, this person would have said this, and he doesn't. he almost certainly didn't say it. oath on the bible, absolutely, that's been since 12 century centuries land, but what the -- england, but what the change is is that you don't have to. you know, i don't have a problem taking
[applause] >> i know there's a big debate. we frequently at the smithsonian get letters from people telling us either we are totally right or totally wrong, and we never say anything about it so whether george washington said so help me god, and, you know, how many people were close enough to hear at the time and have you got a record from them? >> to be clear the constitution does not include it. that language is not in the constitution, and george washington almost certainly did...
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he hates big government deficits. as long as their in the bush to ministration, and he is terrified it will create sky-high interest rates. he loves deficits now in 1983 and created, the fancy word with the crowd sourcing. the use the internet, blocks to get dozens of like-minded people to participate in a joint project. the project at the time was every time he writes a column all of the members of the troops got stay up all night, fact checking. kids every line, every error, every distortion, every misquotation, e-mail me. i'll have it published on national review online in a state. we did about a hundred columns over seven years. that does major retractions of airs allies. but before it did that it had to resolve a not once but twice getting the new york times for the first time in its more than century long history destitute an official policy under which its opinion columnists are obliged to correct errors. they didn't have that policy. [applause] al let me tell you what is so powerful about that. when they can't
he hates big government deficits. as long as their in the bush to ministration, and he is terrified it will create sky-high interest rates. he loves deficits now in 1983 and created, the fancy word with the crowd sourcing. the use the internet, blocks to get dozens of like-minded people to participate in a joint project. the project at the time was every time he writes a column all of the members of the troops got stay up all night, fact checking. kids every line, every error, every distortion,...
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that was a big part of bin laden's persona. he wrote poetry. and he is, he was always described in personal dealings with him as, you know, rather gentle and con said rate -- considerate, far from a screamer. zawahiri, i gather, is not a pleasant person to be around at all. much more rigid, much more didactic, mind you, we're talking about opposing characters who planned 9/11, so i don't want to push that one too far. but i think in portraying bin laden it was important to get him right and see him as his act colite who was going to put his life on the line for this plot would see him, as an inspirational figure. that only makes sense. because you're not seeing him when you're the reader. you're not seeing him through the americans' point of view, you're seeing him from the point of view from someone who's actually been inspired by him, and you want to understand how that could possibly be. >> and one of the things your characters from the west or the middle east have in common is that they're having to use different identities. brooke chandler
that was a big part of bin laden's persona. he wrote poetry. and he is, he was always described in personal dealings with him as, you know, rather gentle and con said rate -- considerate, far from a screamer. zawahiri, i gather, is not a pleasant person to be around at all. much more rigid, much more didactic, mind you, we're talking about opposing characters who planned 9/11, so i don't want to push that one too far. but i think in portraying bin laden it was important to get him right and see...
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[applause] >> i know there's a big debate. we quickly at the smithsonian get letters from people telling us either we are totally right or we're totally wrong, and we never say anything about it. whether george washington said so help me god, and you know, how many people were close enough to hear at the time, and have you got a record from them? >> but be clear that the constitution does not include -- that line which is not in the constitution. george washington almost certainly did not say so help me god. not only is there no evidence but there's a minister whose presence, he is writing about the inoculation. he later becomes washington's great christian defended that he's arguing what a great christian washington is that if anyone was willing to say washington said this, this person would have said it. and he doesn't. he almost certainly say. on the bible, actually. 12th century england? want to change is, and it's also changed in the state constitutions, you don't have to. so there's nothing -- i don't have any problem ta
[applause] >> i know there's a big debate. we quickly at the smithsonian get letters from people telling us either we are totally right or we're totally wrong, and we never say anything about it. whether george washington said so help me god, and you know, how many people were close enough to hear at the time, and have you got a record from them? >> but be clear that the constitution does not include -- that line which is not in the constitution. george washington almost certainly...
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it was a big story. >> how did the city respond? what did they do? >> for a long time they didn't know what to do. the city council didn't meet for days. everybody that night he fled from their houses. went out into the streets. stayed in any open space they could find, sleeping in the streets, sleeping in the city parks. a lot of people went out to stay on ships that were in the harbor. and then they started to go back to their homes in the morning and the after-shocks drove them right back out again into the streets so people stayed away from their homes for several days. and in a city as racially charged as charleston, remember, it's only 21 years after the end of the civil war and 10 years after the end of reconstruction when whites took back all the government in south carolina, there were tensions among everyone and the parks were integrated the night of the earthquake and they quickly broke into white camps and black camps with people separated by who they felt comfortable with. but they stayed out in the streets for days until the city leader
it was a big story. >> how did the city respond? what did they do? >> for a long time they didn't know what to do. the city council didn't meet for days. everybody that night he fled from their houses. went out into the streets. stayed in any open space they could find, sleeping in the streets, sleeping in the city parks. a lot of people went out to stay on ships that were in the harbor. and then they started to go back to their homes in the morning and the after-shocks drove them...
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. >> big publisher of poems repress, thank you for a few minutes . . who remembers as a girl she lived next door to a lithuanian jewish family. she recalls she would call for young josephine to turn the light on for her. 60 years later you could hear the pride in her voice being called upon for that task. it's probable families living in our tenement open until the year 1935 discussed or of mitered norman thomas. tonight we are pleased to discuss his life and work with louisa thomas d. author of conscience. she will be signing copies of the book after the topic and keep in mind when you buy a book your supporting the author, the publisher and the museum. if you choose to become a member this evening, we will give you a complimentary copy of conscience. tonight's conversation is led by john mechem, executive editor and vice president of random house. a former editor of newsweek and pulitzer prize-winning author and commentator on politics,?g?g history and religious base in?gg america and is editor of our jeg public media and contributor tog the pbs tele
. >> big publisher of poems repress, thank you for a few minutes . . who remembers as a girl she lived next door to a lithuanian jewish family. she recalls she would call for young josephine to turn the light on for her. 60 years later you could hear the pride in her voice being called upon for that task. it's probable families living in our tenement open until the year 1935 discussed or of mitered norman thomas. tonight we are pleased to discuss his life and work with louisa thomas d....
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he said, "that will make a big sennation." he didn't like the idea of being arrested, and he believed that the bible and evolution could be reconciled. he finally relented and agreed to get himself arrested. later he called it a drugstore discussion that got past control. the aclu lived up to its end of the agreement, they greed to help, scopes was arrested on may 7th, and the townspeople sprang into action organizing a scopes trial organization committee. that sums it up well. it wasn't about evolution. this was going to be a carnival, going to bring people into town and have fun, rev things up a little bit, and they were supposed to do what they said, accommodate visitors and organize some intertapement so as the trial nears, the town adorns shop windows with apes and monkeys. one motorcycle cruised down with a monkey on it, another was serving simeon sodas. the club approved $5,000 in 1925 money to promote town businesses during the trial. well, that's extremely important, and i think it's important to this day to keep thos
he said, "that will make a big sennation." he didn't like the idea of being arrested, and he believed that the bible and evolution could be reconciled. he finally relented and agreed to get himself arrested. later he called it a drugstore discussion that got past control. the aclu lived up to its end of the agreement, they greed to help, scopes was arrested on may 7th, and the townspeople sprang into action organizing a scopes trial organization committee. that sums it up well. it...
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is wrong with big corporations. so we're going to get into all that. but on the surface, the narrative of conservatives is actually very good. you read atlas shrugged and sometimes you think you're reading from today's headlines. one of the most memorable villains is a fellow named wesley milch. if you've seen the recent new fee, they chose to pronounce his name. i just don't get it. when i read atlas shrugged two ways mooch. we have our own real-world wesley milch. his name is barney frank. now, i don't normally use notes and i apologize for leaving these notes around, but i have them because they want to make exact quotations without error. you might remember one of the refrains is every time he wesley milch did some ridiculous thing and the economy even worse, he and his cronies have made in washington and david say, we need broader powers. we know government is the only enterprise makes the mistake bigger. let me quote her in a frank. after the collapse of the housing industry, a collapse any other engineered fr
is wrong with big corporations. so we're going to get into all that. but on the surface, the narrative of conservatives is actually very good. you read atlas shrugged and sometimes you think you're reading from today's headlines. one of the most memorable villains is a fellow named wesley milch. if you've seen the recent new fee, they chose to pronounce his name. i just don't get it. when i read atlas shrugged two ways mooch. we have our own real-world wesley milch. his name is barney frank....
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those big banners you read, those are the short-term planners in the business world. we debate today, and i think we are a lot closer than maybe the media likes to portray, but it is a difference between the next six months do we deal with this issue and have another debt limit vote in six months from now and another six months later and six months, or do we plan for the long term, get our economy more stable, more certain so businesses can invest and do the right thing? as i said at the beginning here, any business that you see that has a short-term plan usually has a sign that says "going out of business" or "quitting." we're not going to quit here. we're going to have a long-term plan. i heard earlier today my colleague and friend from the other side who practices in real estate, from georgia, senator isakson -- both of us have been in the real estate business for many years. as he said also, we're closer than people think we are, but we have some slight differences, ones that we need to make sure we resolve and move to a long-term plan. i challenged earlier this w
those big banners you read, those are the short-term planners in the business world. we debate today, and i think we are a lot closer than maybe the media likes to portray, but it is a difference between the next six months do we deal with this issue and have another debt limit vote in six months from now and another six months later and six months, or do we plan for the long term, get our economy more stable, more certain so businesses can invest and do the right thing? as i said at the...
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so i had this big battle about whether i was going to do the english assignment, and i remember saying to her in the midst of this heated discussion i didn't see the point during these assignments. they were a waste of time. i didn't see what to do this stuff and she said to me well, okay, you are obviously a bright kid and what you decide to do is find so what are we going to do here? and i said well, it seems to me that the point of this class is one, to make sure i have an understanding of the english language and research skills and i can make a coherent argument, so why don't you testing on that? she said why don't you mean? i said have me write something. she said fine, what are you going to write? i said why not a history of riots in america. she said okay. and i went off and several weeks later come back with i don't know how long it was that like a 140 page manuscript and she takes it home, comes back the next monday and this is okay i'm going to give you an essay for the course, but i don't -- i'm not really capable of evaluating this material and i make it from the project.
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labor was a very big thing. the whole city of charleston was being organized by the knights of labor, which was a labor organization that was active all around the country. they said we're in touch with laborers in charleston, they're the ones you're in it and use houses have been damaged. let us help you. the city told them, we don't need your help either. we can take care of ourselves, and it put the word out around the country. we know what's going on. we can take charge. send the money to us, and we will take care of it for you. >> this is actually going to be my next question. already a racially charged environment. down to the giving out the provisions to my assumption is it didn't happen equally. the population, like you said, black. i'm sure that didn't help the situation. >> there was a lot of wrangling over what made people were the of aid. they went so a lot of trouble to try to determine if people were able to work that really troubled people. and the reason it trouble people was that they were afrai
labor was a very big thing. the whole city of charleston was being organized by the knights of labor, which was a labor organization that was active all around the country. they said we're in touch with laborers in charleston, they're the ones you're in it and use houses have been damaged. let us help you. the city told them, we don't need your help either. we can take care of ourselves, and it put the word out around the country. we know what's going on. we can take charge. send the money to...
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i mean it seems to me that is such a big issue. getting our kids just through high school and into college. i work for a foundation in d.c. called pozzi and i think we are are -- to be our executive director and what they do is they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. so how do we address our failing public school system especially when it comes to black kids? >> whoa, that is big. >> first of all, thank you for your remark and of course tomorrow lawson is the new d.c. coordinator of the foundation in d.c.. i'm so proud of her and she is my baby girl. she is really coretta's baby girl but i borrow her from time to time. we are excited about her. >> she was hired in a nanosecond. it was like m, calm. but we are excited about that and i'm excited about the image that the foundation has which is really about changing the metrics around college attendance. here is what we have to do you all. whoever is in in the -- within the sound of my voice, going to college is not warring. it is not nerdy. it is not white folk. eight is ho
i mean it seems to me that is such a big issue. getting our kids just through high school and into college. i work for a foundation in d.c. called pozzi and i think we are are -- to be our executive director and what they do is they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. so how do we address our failing public school system especially when it comes to black kids? >> whoa, that is big. >> first of all, thank you for your remark and of course tomorrow lawson is the new d.c....
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was doing wrong, often by not having a big enough government. the obama administration response to this i thought was fascinating. a prominent response, so unfair for the u.n. to say that the u.s. is systematically violating u.s. rights because last year we passed obama care and took a giant stride toward recognizing our international human rights obligations in health care. this falls into the category of reassurances that leave me less reassured. i find it bothersome. i think that would have been an additional reason to vote against it. people that are you publicly it it was required for international human rights obligations. and similarly in the controversy in recent weeks and wisconsin i wish i had a dollar for every time that someone has argued that what governor walker did in repealing some of the old publication rights actually was a violation of international human rights. vary widely argued in litigation. so there is a pattern here. much as it was a priest in the 1970's. the u.s. constitution required to properly read court enforcement
was doing wrong, often by not having a big enough government. the obama administration response to this i thought was fascinating. a prominent response, so unfair for the u.n. to say that the u.s. is systematically violating u.s. rights because last year we passed obama care and took a giant stride toward recognizing our international human rights obligations in health care. this falls into the category of reassurances that leave me less reassured. i find it bothersome. i think that would have...
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in the south here but then she got on to marry a minister and had a very conventional life in ohio, big brood of kids. involved in church causes but she was part of one of, she was maybe the most interesting person to me in some ways because she really struggled to negotiate between her children, even as her views were being challenged. >> so talk about norman and walkers through the real crises the brothers faced as a question of service was engaged. >> norman became a pacifist in the 1960s, or right before the united states entered the war and he became involved in some organizations, antiwar organizations. that was sort of the very structure that would become the aclu after the war. [inaudible] he sort of started working, they went through political channels and also kind of grassroots organizations. and evan didn't believe in politics. and he just wanted -- he had kind of a martyr streak. he decided to come back to the united states and take a stand. ralph really heated wilson's call for a fight for freedom and are the kind of what whether this or whether to become an officer. ended
in the south here but then she got on to marry a minister and had a very conventional life in ohio, big brood of kids. involved in church causes but she was part of one of, she was maybe the most interesting person to me in some ways because she really struggled to negotiate between her children, even as her views were being challenged. >> so talk about norman and walkers through the real crises the brothers faced as a question of service was engaged. >> norman became a pacifist in...
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she had gone on to marry a minister and had a very life in ohio, big brood of kids, and involved in sort of church causes. but she was actually part of, just maybe the most interesting person to me in some ways, because she really struggled to negotiate between her children, even as her views were being challenged by them. >> so talk about norman and walk us through the real crisis the brothers faced as a question of service was engaged. >> norman became a pacifist in the 1960s -- 1916, right before the united states entered the war. and he came involved in organizations, antiwar organizations. that was sort of the structure that would become the aclu after the war. [inaudible] and he sort of started working -- they went through political channels and all sorts of kind of grassroots organizations. and evan didn't believe in politics. he just wanted, i mean come hit kind of a martyr of the street. he decided to come back to the united states to take a stand. routh really believed he was fighting a cause for freedom and are the kind of what back and forth. and ended up joining, he wanted t
she had gone on to marry a minister and had a very life in ohio, big brood of kids, and involved in sort of church causes. but she was actually part of, just maybe the most interesting person to me in some ways, because she really struggled to negotiate between her children, even as her views were being challenged by them. >> so talk about norman and walk us through the real crisis the brothers faced as a question of service was engaged. >> norman became a pacifist in the 1960s --...
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not that big an issue. that sounds crazy for me to say that, but when you put a kid in a situation where six and a half to eight hours a day they're in our building, i already fed 'em in the morning, i fed 'em in the afternoon, i got a bra knoll la in my pocket not for me, but because when we go shopping, my wife and i shop at sam's. so we've got extra food. i've got a refrigerator in my office, i have granola bars in there. i don't eat all that stuff. i have cereal in my office, and i'm not the only one. many of my staff do. if it's a food issue, that's a solvable problem. but more important than giving the child the food is feeding their soul. because they're not going to get full off the granolas that i'm giving them, but they have football practice, and i can't have them going there when the last time they ate was 3 1:30 and -- 11:30 and practice isn't over until 6, 7:00. i'm telling you, cut that out. folks, i'm telling you, kids don't care like that. if you give it to 'em, they're going to be there. a
not that big an issue. that sounds crazy for me to say that, but when you put a kid in a situation where six and a half to eight hours a day they're in our building, i already fed 'em in the morning, i fed 'em in the afternoon, i got a bra knoll la in my pocket not for me, but because when we go shopping, my wife and i shop at sam's. so we've got extra food. i've got a refrigerator in my office, i have granola bars in there. i don't eat all that stuff. i have cereal in my office, and i'm not...
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and so that had a big effect on me. and then, also, i knew many of the, um, writers even writers that had been blacklisted i had met, i met later in my life like maridel lassour and tilley olsen that are incredible and amazing writers that have been ignored in influence and sort of lost their momentum because of history. >> host: linda hogan, you open "dwellings" by saying you had long prayed for an eagle feather. >> guest: oh, yes. and the interesting thing is that i worked with the eagles, but it was illegal to take an eagle feather. so, you know, i had wanted an eagle feather. and i'd wanted the naming ceremony, actually, when i was young. and we didn't, we didn't have them that i knew of at the time. so, um, yes. and then, then i had an eagle feather. [laughter] >> host: what's the significance of an eagle feather? is. >> guest: you know, i couldn't explain it to you. what's the significance, i mean, they're like having something that's so, so, um, special. i mean, it's like -- >> host: a talisman? >> guest: it can
and so that had a big effect on me. and then, also, i knew many of the, um, writers even writers that had been blacklisted i had met, i met later in my life like maridel lassour and tilley olsen that are incredible and amazing writers that have been ignored in influence and sort of lost their momentum because of history. >> host: linda hogan, you open "dwellings" by saying you had long prayed for an eagle feather. >> guest: oh, yes. and the interesting thing is that i...
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family values play a big role in relationships play a big role in what occurs. i wonder if you could sort of draw out some of their relationships that occurred, what the family manse in this story. people sometimes forget that the gun fight actually involve three sets of brothers. and what that added to the makes >> when you add on the frontier into prospecting, trying to run a business or ranch, everybody else in the area to a certain extent was a competitive. hard to know who you could trust to would not betray you, and for that reason family was so important. it was so critical. the herb brothers were desperately loyalties other. they loved each other. an insult to one was an attack on all of them. that is also true of the clintons and the mclaury. you tested your family. you defended your family. sometimes you might be a little too prone to defend them. but these are the kinds of relationships that or importance out there in a place where you are struggling to create yourself, in the great words of fred , that fine historian. the frontier of the west was
family values play a big role in relationships play a big role in what occurs. i wonder if you could sort of draw out some of their relationships that occurred, what the family manse in this story. people sometimes forget that the gun fight actually involve three sets of brothers. and what that added to the makes >> when you add on the frontier into prospecting, trying to run a business or ranch, everybody else in the area to a certain extent was a competitive. hard to know who you could...
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c-span: and did they give you a big advance? >> guest: they gave me an advance. it paid for more than the first year of research help, but it's not a way to make a living. c-span: as you know, you've got lots of anecdotes in here. what would you say is the main source of your anecdotes? >> guest: it's about half and half newspapers and magazines and interviews. there's just so many sort of wonderful stories, and i have three times as many stories as i had in the book, but one of the principal points of the book is the idea that law can't be too precise. if you take environmental law, for example, there's a story of the amoco refinery in virginia, where amoco spent $31 million to catch the benzine at the smokestack, but there was almost no benzine at that smokestack. it turned out all the benzine was escaping at the loading dock, but there's no rule for catching benzine at the loading dock, so it didn't get caught and amoco spent $31 million. that's the story of american law. if you write something in advance, some rule writer, it will never fit the circumstance,
c-span: and did they give you a big advance? >> guest: they gave me an advance. it paid for more than the first year of research help, but it's not a way to make a living. c-span: as you know, you've got lots of anecdotes in here. what would you say is the main source of your anecdotes? >> guest: it's about half and half newspapers and magazines and interviews. there's just so many sort of wonderful stories, and i have three times as many stories as i had in the book, but one of the...
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there's a big story about this because politically this was a hot potato, too. then there's the eisenhower doctrine. in a four-hour meeting with congressional leaders on new year's day 1957, who else but dwight eisenhower would hold a four-hour meeting with congressional leaders on new year's day? eisenhower presented a resolution to those leaders endorsing military and economic aid to the middle east. and if necessary, military intervention by the united states. the house passed the resolution on january 30th, the same day that ike paraded the king from saudi arabia before cameras on a state visit. he insisted that the president come to the airport to greet him. that's something that ike had never done with any other foreign leader. but saudi oil had its cloud in those days too and ike agreed to do. and he grumbled to ann whitman now he'd suppose he would have to greet everybody in the future. once israel agreed to withdraw from egypt, the eisenhower doctrine passed the senate on march 5th. in a breast taking 2 months, dwight eisenhower persuaded the congress o
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this is a big subject in my book. one of the things that interests me very deeply was that in addition to being the first war to have destructiveness that this technological level, the first world war was really the pursed propaganda war. why? because up to that point in time in europe and the preceding several decades all the wars have been small-scale colonial conflicts where small volunteer armies, you know, germans, frenchmen, and was men went out and put down colonial rebellions in africa, asia, concord new colonies. it did not require a propaganda effort. you know, certain riders like rudyard kipling to be counted on for supply of the proper kind of poetry and story telling and so forth. there wasn't anything organized by the government by the government. right from the beginning they seem to realize that this war was going to require a massive propaganda effort. this was especially true of england, and it was another reason that led me to concentrate on england in this book. alone of the major powers in europe
this is a big subject in my book. one of the things that interests me very deeply was that in addition to being the first war to have destructiveness that this technological level, the first world war was really the pursed propaganda war. why? because up to that point in time in europe and the preceding several decades all the wars have been small-scale colonial conflicts where small volunteer armies, you know, germans, frenchmen, and was men went out and put down colonial rebellions in africa,...
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the big one was what kind of a book was that i was trying to write? i finally saw the distinction as one between telling a story or describing, explaining and judging. a lot of history in fall describing, explaining and judging of large and complicated things but the things that drew me to history originally and to writing in general was the compelling nature of stories which would take hold of you. you couldn't let them go. i decided that was one wanted to do. the incredible task of interesting characters here many of whom were visible and there were dramatic events taking place. the killing of crazy horse which took place in 1877 in some ways was a minor event but on the other hand it was devastating in its psychological effects on the indians and other indians as well and that is still the case. most americans get through years at a time without thinking of the killing of crazy horse but that is not true. they resent it and they are still -- there are still factions in the tribe that are glad of it. they did what they could to ensure that crazy hor
the big one was what kind of a book was that i was trying to write? i finally saw the distinction as one between telling a story or describing, explaining and judging. a lot of history in fall describing, explaining and judging of large and complicated things but the things that drew me to history originally and to writing in general was the compelling nature of stories which would take hold of you. you couldn't let them go. i decided that was one wanted to do. the incredible task of...
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it is a big democratic district. you won with 51% one the top of your ticket got blown out of your county by 20 points. you can't be on the judiciary committee. last thing you need is being on tv every day fighting with barney frank and maxine waters over guns and abortion. you need to get on the commerce committee. i went and saw chairman hyde and he invited me to join the committee and i am flattered but the answer is no. have to get on the commerce committee. i will deal with you on the vote. i am a social conservative but i don't need to get into the infighting. the next year henry kept coming and approaching me saying you are the guy i want on the committee. i would love to have you and for the same year i kept rebuffing him a nice way and for the end of my first year in congress, he said you are a member of -- you have got most of those hollywood movie studios in your district, the entertainment industry. their lifeblood is intellectual property and protecting intellectual property. he says we have an intellect
it is a big democratic district. you won with 51% one the top of your ticket got blown out of your county by 20 points. you can't be on the judiciary committee. last thing you need is being on tv every day fighting with barney frank and maxine waters over guns and abortion. you need to get on the commerce committee. i went and saw chairman hyde and he invited me to join the committee and i am flattered but the answer is no. have to get on the commerce committee. i will deal with you on the...
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they didn't make a big fuss about it or anything. they liked of the community of people and into assimilating and becoming more american, and it didn't seem like a big deal for them. you know, their daughter was already going to the unitarian church, but then the more i thought about it, the more -- i was raised catholic by my mother, and, you know, i'd heard my father had converted to con thole schism before he married my mother. he wanted a big church wedding and i got up the next morning and said we're going to church. he goes we went to church yesterday. he became obsessed with learning all the church history and doctrine and everything, and then all the sudden, you know, he wasn't. he was wasn't so keen on it anymore. he converted, but then he became hugely anti-catholic. by the time i came along and my siblings came along, going to church was a loaded fought thing. there's like my father in a funk in the back, and my mother dressed us up and put hats on, and then we got home for dinner, you know, he launched into his ser mop ab
they didn't make a big fuss about it or anything. they liked of the community of people and into assimilating and becoming more american, and it didn't seem like a big deal for them. you know, their daughter was already going to the unitarian church, but then the more i thought about it, the more -- i was raised catholic by my mother, and, you know, i'd heard my father had converted to con thole schism before he married my mother. he wanted a big church wedding and i got up the next morning and...
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there was a big conflict over it. the lack of understanding of what is sacred was shown when the forest service said exactly where is the line where the mountain ceases to be sacred? as if there is a spot where you can say this is sacred and this is not so sacred. so yes. we are still marginalized. >> host: when it comes to policy what influence to american -- native americans have in washington? >> guest: not enough. not enough. >> host: linda hogan is our guest at our first call is from greg in cleveland. you are on booktv. >> caller: hi, linda. part of my question is a comment. it has to do with the political side. i really feel that americans have a tremendous burden of guilt for the way we decimated the natives. i think the americans are far worse than hitler ever was. why do you think the black people have more political strength than the native is do? and they are able to seemingly bring themselves more up in the western society? >> guest: there are a lot of things to respond to in your comment and your questio
there was a big conflict over it. the lack of understanding of what is sacred was shown when the forest service said exactly where is the line where the mountain ceases to be sacred? as if there is a spot where you can say this is sacred and this is not so sacred. so yes. we are still marginalized. >> host: when it comes to policy what influence to american -- native americans have in washington? >> guest: not enough. not enough. >> host: linda hogan is our guest at our first...
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even a with a big bank account there is an end to it. that's pretty much what is happening. when i pressed the depletion question, he shrugged and said look, they recharge 5% a year with rainwater to read others claim texas portion of the aquifer is much less one tent for%. i get pumped down to 50% but not hurt anybody. we will never punted try and why would i? i live there. i've got about 100 million invested in my property. it's even got a golf course and flashed a quick grin. this is a forever supply of water. mesa will require the rights to sell between 200 to 320 acre-feet of water per year which is enough to supply 1 million to 1.5 million texans. the panhandle counties roberts, and ogletree that would take part in such a deal set over 81 million of the water. as pickens sees it, water is like any other resource. it's a commodity just like a wheel that should be prospect and sold for profit. i don't think you should cut people off from the water. everyone deserves a bite of the apple. it will provide us with a secure drought source for the future. in the summer of 2009
even a with a big bank account there is an end to it. that's pretty much what is happening. when i pressed the depletion question, he shrugged and said look, they recharge 5% a year with rainwater to read others claim texas portion of the aquifer is much less one tent for%. i get pumped down to 50% but not hurt anybody. we will never punted try and why would i? i live there. i've got about 100 million invested in my property. it's even got a golf course and flashed a quick grin. this is a...
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there was a big part of his persona. he wrote poetry. he was always described in personal dealings with him as generally considered far from as screen. not a pleasant person. is not a pleasant person to be a round ball. much more rigid, much more didactic. mind you, we're talking about the characters, somebody who planned to 9/11. that didn't want to push that went too far. in portraying osama bin laden it was important to get him right in see him as his acolyte who is going to put his life on the line for this plot would see him as an inspirational figure. that only makes sense because you're not seeing him when you are the reader. you aren't seeing him through the americans what do you been seeing it to the point of view of someone who is actually experiencing and has been inspired by him. you want to understand how that could possibly be. >> one of the things your characters from the west german least seven common is that they are having to use different identities. he has to change its name. the characters are having to impose differ
there was a big part of his persona. he wrote poetry. he was always described in personal dealings with him as generally considered far from as screen. not a pleasant person. is not a pleasant person to be a round ball. much more rigid, much more didactic. mind you, we're talking about the characters, somebody who planned to 9/11. that didn't want to push that went too far. in portraying osama bin laden it was important to get him right in see him as his acolyte who is going to put his life on...
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so he sees this data on the internet, i've got moon rocks for sale, and he's a big believer in right and wrong so he immediately called the fbi, he mailed the fbi in tampa and it became a big testing operation and thad roberts was taken down -- i always give it away but you know he got arrested. [laughter] >> you obviously have come off of the enormous success with not only the book but the fact they've converted to movies which helps in terms of that notoriety. >> d.c. the titles and it's really annoying. sex on the moon is one they have to. >> they are locked in on that one. >> certainly you would say that you are working on this at the time that the social network was being filmed so there was some kind of overlap but at that point i always thought that in the way that actors and actresses are as good as the rules the choose, writers are only as good as the stories they pick. so what was it you just explained notwithstanding of all the stories you could have told what is it that attracted you to this particular? >> for me the stories come to me. i don't look for them anymore ever
so he sees this data on the internet, i've got moon rocks for sale, and he's a big believer in right and wrong so he immediately called the fbi, he mailed the fbi in tampa and it became a big testing operation and thad roberts was taken down -- i always give it away but you know he got arrested. [laughter] >> you obviously have come off of the enormous success with not only the book but the fact they've converted to movies which helps in terms of that notoriety. >> d.c. the titles...
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that's a big leap. >> well, i think that it's not a leap because there was so many great novels written during that era, the scarlett letter, moby dick, walt whitman, but they delight me on a different kind of level. they also move me very, very much i think because they make me think intellectually and philosophically and so forth. people need -- the populis needs emotion, to display it. there's advertising companies that came along in the 1830s -- 1930s that said we have to appropriate the methods of uncle tom's cob bin to sell our products. why? because we have to sway the emotions. you can even see in tv how as try, maybe they don't always succeed for you or for me, but they try to sway the emotion in some way. whatever emotion it may be. it may be sentimental or it may be exciting emotion or something like that, and she has every kind of emotion in there. she was really the first novelist to bring together both, more sentimental, religious emotions with the action adventure, the thrills, and she was the first novelist to successfully bring those two things together, which is why he
that's a big leap. >> well, i think that it's not a leap because there was so many great novels written during that era, the scarlett letter, moby dick, walt whitman, but they delight me on a different kind of level. they also move me very, very much i think because they make me think intellectually and philosophically and so forth. people need -- the populis needs emotion, to display it. there's advertising companies that came along in the 1830s -- 1930s that said we have to appropriate...
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>> listen, i'm a big fan. i watch game of thrones. i love he's awesome. >> speaking of projects, you had said you don't have -- you don't have your next one lined up right now. obviously, you are going to enjoy this. and continue with the media push. how will you begin to decide. what will you be look for the for the next project? >> you know, i look through all of these ideas and they come in. 99% of them are really bad. you know, it's like every, you know, person that commits a crime now fits any of the e-mails. but, you know, i need that sort of young kid, really smart, who's not a bad person who's kind of in the gray area between right and wrong. this is the first heist that i've written. this is the first person that committed a crime. and then, you know, there has to be the elements, the betrayal and sex and all of those kind of things that janet doesn't like. then there has to be, you know, some level of fun for me. so it has to be in a place where i want to go. because you have to spend six months to a year doing it. for me, g
>> listen, i'm a big fan. i watch game of thrones. i love he's awesome. >> speaking of projects, you had said you don't have -- you don't have your next one lined up right now. obviously, you are going to enjoy this. and continue with the media push. how will you begin to decide. what will you be look for the for the next project? >> you know, i look through all of these ideas and they come in. 99% of them are really bad. you know, it's like every, you know, person that...
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apple wuss big, then it -- was big, then it went away for a while, then it was back again. so it should be obvious that the 1980s is back, and for various reasons i argue in the book, it is back. and i don't think it's just because of the nostalgia factor although that's certainly a factor. also there's some coincidences. i had mentioned on my radio show a couple days ago that the weird coincidence, although you may see it not just as a coincidence, that 25 years ago almost to the exact week and, certainly, to the exact month the united states military was bombing libya, and the world was wrapped with the detention about a nuclear meltdown at chernobyl. those two things happened almost exactly 25 years ago to the month. so as much of this is pop culture, some of it is very, very real. and what i argue in the book is that the popular culture of the 1980s, the iconography of the 1980s in many ways has inspired the way we hook at real world -- look at real world events and how real world, i guess you would call them actors, behave today. so here are just, again, some examples,
apple wuss big, then it -- was big, then it went away for a while, then it was back again. so it should be obvious that the 1980s is back, and for various reasons i argue in the book, it is back. and i don't think it's just because of the nostalgia factor although that's certainly a factor. also there's some coincidences. i had mentioned on my radio show a couple days ago that the weird coincidence, although you may see it not just as a coincidence, that 25 years ago almost to the exact week...
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he's a big fan. >> i'm from maryland originally. they've got a growing tea party movement, though. >> nice to meet you. >> pleasure meeting you. >> yes, please. tom. >> i is an current family in maryland. [inaudible conversations] for who clark thank you. >> hello. >> for more again? what he doing in washington? does this for you? i'm glad you were in town for that. was the graduation? >> students are graduating tomorrow. thank you very much. >> this way, sir. >> nice to meet you. sir with an h. >> you got it. >> what are we doing in libya? >> methane. >> thank you. nice to meet you, erica. he looks familiar. >> this is for my dad, hoss. that would be lovely. thank you for all you do. >> that's because i always play mine. >> struggling under the iran thing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> what are you trying? >> the last person who had done that. >> no, i talked to the staff there. he's not gone. >> can you have a cocktail and then we can finish this? >> you look as great as ever. >> you also mention mccarthy.
he's a big fan. >> i'm from maryland originally. they've got a growing tea party movement, though. >> nice to meet you. >> pleasure meeting you. >> yes, please. tom. >> i is an current family in maryland. [inaudible conversations] for who clark thank you. >> hello. >> for more again? what he doing in washington? does this for you? i'm glad you were in town for that. was the graduation? >> students are graduating tomorrow. thank you very much....
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twice as big. and it would be great if all of it was constitutional, it could be great it was if it was all effective, if it was efficient and it would be great if we could afford it. but the fact is we're where we are today with $1.6 trillion deficits because we can't afford the government we have. and so we've not concentrated on the very areas where we can find mutual agreement, we've had three bipartisan bills in here where we've cut money, significant money, a billion here, $5 billion here, $7 billion here, go through the senate with vast majority votes only to go nowhere. because the allowance for the debate on the underlying bills was stopped. the bills were pulled. so what do we do? well, the first thing we do is we look at what the problems are. what are the problems? we have a hundred different programs with a hundred sets of bureaucracies for surface transportation alone. why do we do that? why haven't we fixed it? that's a question the american people ought to be asking. we have 82 prog
twice as big. and it would be great if all of it was constitutional, it could be great it was if it was all effective, if it was efficient and it would be great if we could afford it. but the fact is we're where we are today with $1.6 trillion deficits because we can't afford the government we have. and so we've not concentrated on the very areas where we can find mutual agreement, we've had three bipartisan bills in here where we've cut money, significant money, a billion here, $5 billion...
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he was a big star. he became the social leader of all the co-ops at the entrance and then he fell in love with a young intern, and we've all done something stupid out of love. what he did was he stole a 600-pound safe full of moon rocks from his professor's office, and as i said, spread them on the bed, had sex with his girlfriend and then try to sell them over the internet to a belgian gem dealer. >> his name was? >> axel. you couldn't have invented this guy. [laughter] this guy has never been out of antwerp is like. he collects rocks and treats them every monday night in issued center where all the guys in antwerp trade rocks. his hobby is popinjay which i had never heard of which is a sport where there's a wooden bird on a 100-foot pole and all these men stand around and shoot crossbows. this is a real sport. use this guy and he seized his hat on the internet, i've got moon rocks for sale, and he is this big believer in right and wrong sweetie immediately called the fbi. e-mail the fbi in tab and he
he was a big star. he became the social leader of all the co-ops at the entrance and then he fell in love with a young intern, and we've all done something stupid out of love. what he did was he stole a 600-pound safe full of moon rocks from his professor's office, and as i said, spread them on the bed, had sex with his girlfriend and then try to sell them over the internet to a belgian gem dealer. >> his name was? >> axel. you couldn't have invented this guy. [laughter] this guy...
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you know how much people hate wall street and big bankers, you know. who are the slave owners? they were the wall street of 1861 in a way. viewed by the common man in the north. if you're plowing their own field, making your living, costly been told about slavery is all good for blacks. i think the average person had a belly full of southern aristocrats. a real bellyful. i think had a lot of pent-up feeling about that. in fact, one southerner made a speech, maybe in congress, i forget, some of you historic may remember this, in which maybe it was fitzhugh or one of those southern writer said the laboring classes with the minefield of humanity. meaning the thing announced where you wipe your boot. it was this idea that southerners, not all southerners because most southerners were average farmers and workers, too. but the leadership of the south, you know, arrogance, putting in the face of the common man. i think they -- they just wanted to with those those. lincoln really appealed to them. lincoln may have been a nobody before he became president. he knew how to reach the commo
you know how much people hate wall street and big bankers, you know. who are the slave owners? they were the wall street of 1861 in a way. viewed by the common man in the north. if you're plowing their own field, making your living, costly been told about slavery is all good for blacks. i think the average person had a belly full of southern aristocrats. a real bellyful. i think had a lot of pent-up feeling about that. in fact, one southerner made a speech, maybe in congress, i forget, some of...
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this is big subject of my book. one of the things that interested me very deeply was that in addition to being the first war to have, you know, destructiveness of this technological level, the first world war was really the first propaganda war. why? because up to that point in time in europe, in the preceding several decades all the wars had been fairly small-scale colonial conflicts where small volunteer armies, you know, of germans, french men, english men, went out and put down colonial rebellions in africa or asia or conquered new colonies in africa or whatever. it didn't require a propaganda effort. certain writers like rudyard kipling could be counted on to supply the proper kind of story telling and poetry when needed but there wasn't anything organized by the government. but, right from the beginning they seemed to realize that this war was going to require a massive propaganda effort. this was especially true in england and it was another reason that led me to concentrate on england in this book because al
this is big subject of my book. one of the things that interested me very deeply was that in addition to being the first war to have, you know, destructiveness of this technological level, the first world war was really the first propaganda war. why? because up to that point in time in europe, in the preceding several decades all the wars had been fairly small-scale colonial conflicts where small volunteer armies, you know, of germans, french men, english men, went out and put down colonial...
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. >> the big question, i suppose, and the great debate that continues is whether this was, as he put his command at think you're pretty decisive on the subject, whether it was coming back to my sloppy career in the state or whether it was the most bread the -- brilliant counterespionage action of the war which was supposed to throw off mcclellan into falsely comprehending please intentions. but all that the permission you would think that mcclellan would have been more aggressive and successful. jim, what do you think? counter espionage or mistakes that was taken advantage of? >> * convinced it was a sloppy courier and that the orders virginia when holy orders. they had been lost by the career two other dimensions of it, one of them serious, and one of the not so serious. the series one is why did mcclellan way so long before giving orders to different generals, especially to the general franklyn to force crane. those orders went out to franklin at 6:00 that evening. mcclellan did actually express a certain amount of urgency in his orders to franklin because it was fractus task to re
. >> the big question, i suppose, and the great debate that continues is whether this was, as he put his command at think you're pretty decisive on the subject, whether it was coming back to my sloppy career in the state or whether it was the most bread the -- brilliant counterespionage action of the war which was supposed to throw off mcclellan into falsely comprehending please intentions. but all that the permission you would think that mcclellan would have been more aggressive and...
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that's a big leap. >> well, i think that it's not a leap because there were so many great novel written during that era; the starlet letter -- scarlet letter, walt whitman's "leaves of grass," but they delight me on a different kind of level. they also move me very, very much. i think because they make me think intellectually and philosophically and so forth. um, people need, the populace needs emotion to sway it. and, um, there's an ad agency that's now called jwt, it was called john walter thompson. they came along in do 1930s -- in the 1930s and said we had to appropriate the methods of "uncle tom's cabin "to sell our products. why? [laughter] yeah, why? why? because we have to sway the emotions. and you can even see on tv how as tried -- maybe they don't always succeed for you or for me, but they try to sway the emotion in some way. whatever emotion it may be, it could be sentimental, or it could be an exciting emotion, something like that. and she has every kind of emotion in there. she was really the first novelist to bring together both the more sentimental and religious and dome
that's a big leap. >> well, i think that it's not a leap because there were so many great novel written during that era; the starlet letter -- scarlet letter, walt whitman's "leaves of grass," but they delight me on a different kind of level. they also move me very, very much. i think because they make me think intellectually and philosophically and so forth. um, people need, the populace needs emotion to sway it. and, um, there's an ad agency that's now called jwt, it was...
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so there was a big fight. saul bellow had made one of my favorite memories and the festival were the opening ceremony was the public library, and because norman mailer had in many people's views invited secretary of state george shultz to deliver the opening address, not long after he made a statement supporting the apartheid regime in africa which meant the south african writers boycotted the event. because he was there there was a in almost presidential level of security around the public library, and we all had to bring various forms of id and he forgot to bring his ied. and this was actually quite soon after he won the nobel prize so there was an extraordinary fight and i saw him on the chair like this outside the entrance not being allowed in on till norman mailer camera panned vouched for him. you can just imagine how much he had enjoyed being vouched for. the nobel laureate was. so it was a very contentious time, but one of the reasons it was contentious is all of us believed the public role of the writ
so there was a big fight. saul bellow had made one of my favorite memories and the festival were the opening ceremony was the public library, and because norman mailer had in many people's views invited secretary of state george shultz to deliver the opening address, not long after he made a statement supporting the apartheid regime in africa which meant the south african writers boycotted the event. because he was there there was a in almost presidential level of security around the public...
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is a big company we have got to lead on privacy. we have a responsibility, all of us, not just a socially respect the user but to build the technology that will protect the anonymity, the privacy and the security of what i say, who i say it tooto, where i go, what is important to me. given the recent hearing on phone tracking and given the fact that, if you happen to look at a web site and all of a sudden target the ads started popping up no matter where you go. there is a lot of concern out there about being tracked. does microsoft have the technology and do you aggregate your -- information that the information that you collect from people or can you identify individuals? >> guest: on the phone for instance, there has to be an express action by the consumer to say that you want to know, you want to make your location known. so now that is not, that is not known and not aggregated. every application, every can counter you can either turn it off completely or every action, every encounter you have to expressly say guess you want you
is a big company we have got to lead on privacy. we have a responsibility, all of us, not just a socially respect the user but to build the technology that will protect the anonymity, the privacy and the security of what i say, who i say it tooto, where i go, what is important to me. given the recent hearing on phone tracking and given the fact that, if you happen to look at a web site and all of a sudden target the ads started popping up no matter where you go. there is a lot of concern out...
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a big story about this because politically this was a hot potato. then there is the eisenhower doctrine. in a four hour meeting with congressional leaders who else but dwight eisenhower can hold a 40 hour meeting on new year's day. eisenhower presented resolutions to those leaders endorsing military and economic aid to the middle east and if necessary military intervention by the united states. the house passed a resolution on january 30th, the same day that there was a state visit. now, he insisted that the president come to the airport to greet him, something that he had never done with any other foreign leader. but saudi oil had its clout. he finally agreed to go. he grumbled now he would have to agree everybody at the airport in the future. the eisenhower doctrine passed the senate on march 5th. in a breathtaking two months the white eisenhower persuaded the congress and the and the states to dramatically reorient american policy toward the middle east. the eisenhower doctrine command in the united states to replacing the british as the security
a big story about this because politically this was a hot potato. then there is the eisenhower doctrine. in a four hour meeting with congressional leaders who else but dwight eisenhower can hold a 40 hour meeting on new year's day. eisenhower presented resolutions to those leaders endorsing military and economic aid to the middle east and if necessary military intervention by the united states. the house passed a resolution on january 30th, the same day that there was a state visit. now, he...
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most of the times the big companies don't want to take you on. that's all part of the capitalistic structure up. don't have to fall prey to that. it depends in your heart. what has god put in your heart for you to be and become? because he opens the doors. not man. [applause] [applause] >> one more point i want to make to you. i spent a career in the banking, in the upper echelon part, i don't know, lower level. i've heard all of the men here talk about the capitalistic thing and slavery. i want to say to you, i'm glad i'm a descendant of slavery. i'm glad. i'm proud of it. [applause] >> i felt the deepest form of slavery i had to face was my father. he was tough, rigid, unyielding, and a successful businessman. even my grandfather, very successful man. i grew up in durham, north carolina. durham was called at that time, the black wall street. we own our own pharmacies, and farmers bank. you are talking about the mutual life insurance, mutual statements and loans. i grew up around black doctors. if people being successful. when i'm saying i'm gla
most of the times the big companies don't want to take you on. that's all part of the capitalistic structure up. don't have to fall prey to that. it depends in your heart. what has god put in your heart for you to be and become? because he opens the doors. not man. [applause] [applause] >> one more point i want to make to you. i spent a career in the banking, in the upper echelon part, i don't know, lower level. i've heard all of the men here talk about the capitalistic thing and slavery....
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his public purse, the grandfatherly man with a big smile and the love of golf was largely his personal intervention. behind the scenes he was strategically rigorous and a tough-minded commander in chief. the people who work for him never doubted who was in charge. eisenhower was a citizen of the world more than any other president. yet he never forgot where he came from and that's why his presidential library is an abilene kansas, close to where i live. he was not a professional politician yet he was one of the most successful politicians in history and supremely protective of his hero's image. he did not hesitate to use subordinates like secretary of state john foster dulles as lightning rods for controversial policies that were in fact his creation. eisenhower had a wild temper. a timber that exploded like a rocket, but at a tense moment requiring great decisions he was unfailingly cool, koln and deliver it. this was a profoundly religious man who had prayer at the beginning of cabinet meetings. yet when the famous temporary rot income he could turn the air blue with soldierly profan
his public purse, the grandfatherly man with a big smile and the love of golf was largely his personal intervention. behind the scenes he was strategically rigorous and a tough-minded commander in chief. the people who work for him never doubted who was in charge. eisenhower was a citizen of the world more than any other president. yet he never forgot where he came from and that's why his presidential library is an abilene kansas, close to where i live. he was not a professional politician yet...
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what's the big deal? >> and a naturalized u.s. citizen could be governor of arizona not perhaps tomorrow but it could happen. >> absolutely. [inaudible] born in mexico? >> and number of people born in mexico a lot in the position. >> needless to say not only mexicans but secretaries of state, etc.. >> we want to give everybody an opportunity for dialogue if you wouldn't mind raising your hand introducing yourself i'm going to start with the co-sponsor of this and then come back to jimmy. >> thank you. i'm the director of the program to america, and we have had a great collaboration with jorge and i had the privilege of editing to him from time to time at the various newspapers and it's always been an intellectual privileged to work with you and i really congratulate you on this book which is fantastic. i had the opportunity to finish it yesterday. i wanted to ask you, one of the most riveting passages was your description about the lack of social cohesion and civic engagement in mexico. when you look at the statistics of associati
what's the big deal? >> and a naturalized u.s. citizen could be governor of arizona not perhaps tomorrow but it could happen. >> absolutely. [inaudible] born in mexico? >> and number of people born in mexico a lot in the position. >> needless to say not only mexicans but secretaries of state, etc.. >> we want to give everybody an opportunity for dialogue if you wouldn't mind raising your hand introducing yourself i'm going to start with the co-sponsor of this and...
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and he's that big of a figure. usually when we think about the postcivil rights, he's written out that have script. that's important for us to understand about malcolm x, he at bottom is an organizer. what's great about the book, the malcolm x biography, it shows the inner workers of how he transformed the nation of islam. there's always been a dialogue with the nation of islam and the malcolm x. they say he could not been what he was without mohammed. when you look at how he was and the nation, you see the relationship. nation of islam has few numbers before malcolm x. he's patrolled from prison. for the next 12 year, he works day and night to transform the nation of islam. not just for -- as a religious institution, but as a political institution. so when we think about malcolm x, malcolm is the consistent essential organizer. he had helped organize a group that was under the scope. in the last years of his life, he tried to organize two organizations. what's so important about malcolm is that malcolm is a local
and he's that big of a figure. usually when we think about the postcivil rights, he's written out that have script. that's important for us to understand about malcolm x, he at bottom is an organizer. what's great about the book, the malcolm x biography, it shows the inner workers of how he transformed the nation of islam. there's always been a dialogue with the nation of islam and the malcolm x. they say he could not been what he was without mohammed. when you look at how he was and the...